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Danielle Cohen-Shohet
Danielle Cohen-Shohet is the CEO and co-founder of GlossGenius, the all-in-one booking, payments and point-of-sale platform built for salons, spas and independent beauty professionals. A summa cum laude Princeton graduate and former Goldman Sachs analyst, she taught herself to code and wrote the first version of the product after running a freelance makeup business out of her dorm room. Founded with co-founder Karim Butt and run alongside her twin sister Leah, GlossGenius now serves tens of thousands of beauty and wellness businesses, crossed roughly $100M in revenue, and reached a $510M valuation on its 2023 Series C.
Leah Cohen-Shohet
Leah Cohen-Shohet is co-founder and Chief Business Officer of GlossGenius, the all-in-one booking, payments, and point-of-sale platform built for beauty and wellness professionals. A Princeton economics graduate and former Goldman Sachs strategic investor, she left a fintech career at Symphony and Archipelago to scale the company her twin sister Danielle founded out of a Princeton dorm-room makeup side hustle. Under their partnership GlossGenius has grown to serve tens of thousands of independent beauty businesses, reached a valuation north of half a billion dollars, and raised roughly $134 million in total funding.
Fred Helou
Fred Helou is the founder and CEO of Vagaro, a cloud-based business management platform used by over 75,000 beauty, fitness, and wellness businesses across four countries. Born in Beirut in 1969, he escaped the Lebanese Civil War at 18, arrived in the United States penniless after being pickpocketed in France, and worked his way up from a $5-an-hour pickup boy to director of software development before being laid off in the 2008 recession — the catalyst that led him to build what is now a billion-dollar company. Vagaro has processed over $15 billion in payments, booked over 600 million appointments, and achieved unicorn status with a $1 billion valuation following a 2021 reinvestment by FTV Capital.